<p>Actually, I’ve never lived in Cali. However, Cali is real close, and Berkeley is top notch in engineering, so I applied there. Same thing with Stanford. I only applied to UCLA and UCSD because it was only an extra 80 bucks on the UC application, plus I needed some safety schools (or at least schools that are easier to get into).</p>
<p>Why did your Mom hate Penn? If I don’t get into Princeton, its my #2 (I’m not even thinking about Stanford, cause it’s a megareach for me).</p>
<p>and Princeton isn’t megareach for you? lol</p>
<p>She was taught by TAs, had giant classes where all she did was take notes, and felt like she did not get the education she was paying for. She did, however, take some classes in the law department (even though it was grad she somehow got in) and loved those. She went a long time ago, so one person’s opinion shouldn’t change your mind. I have met people who have gon there and loved it. I personally do not want to live in their either.</p>
<p>Prettyfish- maybe you will be able to give me a tour when I go there! Princeton is my absolute dream school(as many of you have heard many times before). It is to bad that I feel that I do not live up to the standards of most of you applying from CC. How does one get into the honors courses as opposed to the regular? I mean, most of the people going to Princeton are very smart and would have the ability to handle the course. right? Anye info is appreciated. Maybe ill im ya sometime. </p>
<p>Random but…I just got a job! Itis at a kennel where I get to take care of dogs! It will be fun I get to bring my do to work with me, and hopefully it will be considered unique for Princeton:) Anye perk is appreciated:D</p>
<p>As far as I know, you just take it. It’s not an entire honors program, it’s just the honors classes - basically, what that means is just that the class focuses heavily on proofs, versus just going through the motions.</p>
<p>Seriously though, even if I’m not an “official” tour guide hit me up and I’ll take you to an awesome pizza joint…</p>
<p>Princeton is also a megareach, but I think I have better chances there, as I applied ED and I spent a lot of time on my essays for it.</p>
<p>There are requirements to take the honors classes as a freshman: </p>
<p>“Students who have a very strong mathematics aptitude and achieve a 5 on the AB or BC Advanced Placement Examination and 760 or better on the SAT (mathematics aptitude) test, qualify for placement into Mathematics 215 or 214.”</p>
<p>prettyfish - looks like you and cookieson are going to be spending a lot of time together - tea, crew, 214. He’s looking forward to all of these as well.</p>
<p>Wow, 760 or better and a 5!? I hope that I do well! </p>
<p>Prettyfish-kk for sure. I know that I will want to tour sometime next year.</p>
<p>haha for serious. Although I think I’ll be doing 215 just so I can do 218, because I heart Professor Gunning like whoa. I’d much rather take the algebra, but since it seems that you don’t really do both 214 and 215, I’ll resign myself to <em>gulp</em> Analysis…</p>
<p>I am going to be the BEST tour guide ever. I’ve already decided.</p>
<p>prettyfish - how was the AIME today? We had a big storm here so S and math teacher had a Plan B invovling snow shoes. Luckily the storm held off until afternoon.</p>
<p>If you choose to major in engineering at Princeton and like math, you could consider combining it with the certificate program in Applied and Computational Mathematics. See <a href=“http://www.pacm.princeton.edu/undergrad.html[/url]”>http://www.pacm.princeton.edu/undergrad.html</a> for details.</p>
<p>they dont actually care if you have the prereqs or not, they figure if youre in over youre head, youre just screwing yourself. I only got a 4 on AP calculus, but im skipping into multivariable because my integrated science class taught us most of BC (and a lot of multi)</p>
<p>Although, from what i’ve heard, to be a math major you basically need to place out of a lot of classes before even coming here (ie start at about linear algebra) The honors courses are extremely theory based, and just mostly proofs. some people like that, some people dont. </p>
<p>anyway, id say that no other department likes the math department. Engineering is trying to stay as far from the math department as possible, and if youre not a math major then most of the upper level math courses that you will take are in the MAE department.</p>
<p>physics at princeton is amazing, although cruel and unusual punishment. If you can make it through, youre pretty set in whatever you want to do (whether you graduate with Cs or As)</p>
<p>engineering here is good, and is only gonna get better. They’re putting so much more money into the engineering school and actively trying to get a larger percentage of the class to become engineers.</p>
<p>"anyway, id say that no other department likes the math department. "</p>
<p>Why would you say that?</p>
<p>basically, the engineering department tells you not to take the upper level math course through the math department, but to take them through MAE. same for physics.</p>